Unfold Venice

Barovier & Toso participates in the third edition of The Venice Glass Week, scheduled from 7 to 15 September, the international festival dedicated to glass art that celebrates the great liveliness of the artistic, cultural and productive scene of the lagoon city.

Adriano Dalla Valentina was born in Murano in 1945. Where he has lived and worked all his life. He has an open personality, always surrounded by friends although very shy with strangers.

The third edition of The Venice Glass Week is starts this finally saturday 7 of september. The "glass week" will start on the evening of Friday 6 September 2019 in Campo Santo Stefano in Venice, with the inauguration of the second edition of The Venice Glass Week HUB.

Fabio Fornasier was born in Venice, Italy on the 16th of August 1963. He learned glassmaking in his father Luigi's glassworks where he demonstrated talent for design and an innate ability to transform glass into awe-inspiring art chandeliers.

Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel

The palace was erected between 1473 and 1479 for Nicolò Soranzo with material recovered from an ancient palace of the Gradenigo. Particular glimpses of the adjacent church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli and the coincidence of the construction period make it probable that Nicolò Soranzo will be involved in the construction of the church.

From 5 to 8 September 2019, in conjunction with the Venice Art Biennale and the Film Festival, a selection of important ancient and contemporary works.

"Thomas Stearns alla Venini", curated by Marino Barovier, is the next autumn exhibition of LE STANZE DEL VETRO, open to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore from 9 September 2019 to 5 January 2020.

Stefano Busato was born in Venice in 1964.

He has always created objects in Murano glass, carrying on his father's tradition. In love with the mythology and gestures of the human body, he shows off his dream experiences.

See Busato operas in muranonet

The artist Matthias Schaller develops two themes in the series Leiermann: the mirror - source and through intellectual reflections, ideals and rational - and Venice - symbolic, historical and cultural place, connected to the contemporary.

An exhibition brings the collection of Barry Friedman from New York to the Museum of Glass in Murano, an art enthusiast who donated his collection to The Venitian Heritage - New York in 2017, which in turn brought it permanently to the Glass Museum of Murano is thus enriched by 177 works churned out by the best names in Murano glass of the twentieth century.